NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
+184%
2.413 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 560 SE
0.848 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Feb 2012
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
957 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
91.87GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
1024
Shading Units
288
64
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.832 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
35.33 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
847.9 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.66 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GF114
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF114-200-KB-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
